Managing in a time of great change

In this collection of essays, management expert Peter Drucker examines such topics as the meaning and message of the Information Age, the implications for business in the reinvention of government, the shifting balance of power between management and labor, the differing kinds of teamwork organizations can choose, the lessons to be learned from the rise and fall and rise again of such giants as IBM and GM, where the most important jobs will be in the coming decades, why data management has become the keystone to management success, the fading boundaries between profit and nonprofit organizations, the question of in-house work versus outsourcing, the relationship between the U.S. and Japan, and the promise and perils of China.--From publisher description.Ler mais...

The theory of the business --
Planning for uncertainty --
The five deadly business sins --
Managing the family business --
Six rules for presidents --
Managing in the network society --
The new society of organizations --
There's three kinds of teams --
The information revolution in retail --
Be data literate; know what to know --
We need to measure, not count --
The information executives need today --
Trade lessons from the world economy --
The U.S. economy's power shift --
Where the new markets are --
The Pacific Rim and the world economy --
China's growth markets --
The end of Japan, Inc.? --
A weak dollar strengthens Japan --
The new superpower : the overseas Chinese --
A century of social transformation --
It profits us to strengthen nonprofits --
Knowledge work and gender roles --
Reinventing government --
Can the democracies win the peace? --
Interview: Managing in a post-capitalist society.

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Peter F. Drucker.

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In this collection of essays, management expert Peter Drucker examines such topics as the meaning and message of the Information Age, the implications for business in the reinvention of government, the shifting balance of power between management and labor, the differing kinds of teamwork organizations can choose, the lessons to be learned from the rise and fall and rise again of such giants as IBM and GM, where the most important jobs will be in the coming decades, why data management has become the keystone to management success, the fading boundaries between profit and nonprofit organizations, the question of in-house work versus outsourcing, the relationship between the U.S. and Japan, and the promise and perils of China.--From publisher description.